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I've made the switch...
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At the (enormous) risk of adding yet another MAC vs PC thread to this board (dont. seriously.) on Thursday night I finally made the switch (tm?). I picked up my shiny new MacBook from the Apple store in Manchester (man what an obnoxious irritating * the salesman was - typical mac user but I wont go into that) and I must say so far I'm rather enjoying it. I've not had much time to play with it cause I spent most of friday just moving stuff off my old laptop and then I went to Newcastle for the evening but it really is a lovely piece of kit. I managed to get it at a huge discount which was a major benefit as I'm not sure I could have talked myself into it otherwise (yeah you get loads of free software, it's cool, but I have the internet..) but I'm pretty pleased with the purchase.
I'll probably drop back in here over the coming days/weeks as I muddle my way through things. I'm already missing a lot of stuff my PC was doing for me but obviously it'll take a while to get everything set up and configured how I want it and also find replacement bits of software/etc (I've already got windows running in fusion and I'm hoping to add solaris and ubuntu to the mix aswell just for fun) so I'm giving it chance to wow me though it already has.
So come and join the party. Tell me what cool stuff I can now do which would otherwise take me weeks to discover.
I'll probably drop back in here over the coming days/weeks as I muddle my way through things. I'm already missing a lot of stuff my PC was doing for me but obviously it'll take a while to get everything set up and configured how I want it and also find replacement bits of software/etc (I've already got windows running in fusion and I'm hoping to add solaris and ubuntu to the mix aswell just for fun) so I'm giving it chance to wow me though it already has.
So come and join the party. Tell me what cool stuff I can now do which would otherwise take me weeks to discover.
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The sad bit is that I have a new job and it requires me to use a PC. I too am missing a lot of stuff my Mac at home does for me, but most of all I am depressed having to put up with all the gray that faces me, they won't use Vista, it's XP that sits there and adorns my work day.
What have I done to deserve this?
Anyway mate, when you have a need for your Mac to do something it doesn't do out of the box, pop your question here and I'm sure you'll get an answer.
Now what does control-alt-delete so again? And why do I have to go to Start to stop?
Posted: Sunday, 30 September 2007 at 7:27AM
But I actually prefer Linux over anything else... INCLUDING Macs.
And what about PowerPoint, how can I kill that altogether? Oh I was so spoiled with Keynote.
Hello Scorpious, yes GarageBand is for amateurs mate, that's the target audience, why not join the myriad of music professionals using Macs successfully and take a look at Logic Pro?
$150 on a professional sound card? Wow what a big spender, I just spent that much on a pair of shoes!
Posted: Sunday, 30 September 2007 at 2:26PM
Let's examine the costs:
My computer, an AMD 64 X2 4400+, cost me a total of $400 to build myself (including that $150 sound card that costs less than your shoes). The program I use for most of my work cost $150 more. I have a couple other programs and some VST's that cost another $200 or so. You're asking me to use a program that costs more than my whole computer, not to mention I have to buy a computer that will likely cost me five or six times what mine cost. Umm, yeah... I think I'll pass on that.
As far as the colors go, all you have to do is change the colors of the dialog boxes (or the whole scheme, if you like) in Control Panel -> Display -> Appearance.
*Edit* In all fairness, I actually considered picking up an old Apple notebook the other day... til I found out it was a 133MHz PowerPC.
I'm not about to get into another battle over this one, as far as I'm concerned it's been fought and won!
YOU said you were a music producer and YOU couldn't find anything professional on Mac (nor Windows for that matter). YOU criticised GarageBand as being for amateurs!
I simply pointed out a professional solution for you, which, if you are in the business would surely have known about!
As for "You're asking me to use a program that costs more than my whole computer..." that's the price you pay for professional software mate, have you had a look at what the Adobe Creative Suite costs for professional designers?
Professionals in my game use professional software, if you decide to go crappy cheap and stick with Microsoft Publisher then you have no right to whinge about the lack of... whatever you were whinging about.
Actually pro software only cost more than your whole computer because you obviously have a [insert crappy adjective here] computer.
I think you need to look up "professional" in the dictionary, assuming your budget allows you to have one of course.
Posted: Sunday, 30 September 2007 at 3:31PM
I love it when Mac guys go postal about hating PC's... PC's are just fine, it's not the system that sucks, it's the OS, and as I've already said, Linux > ALL. Linux is the best OS by far for any system... it's faster, more stable, and free, the way ANY OS should be. And there's more software available for Linux than there is for Mac nowadays. Not to mention that PC's are faster, cheaper, and more user-friendly than ever before, and certainly a lot cheaper than any Mac.
As far as your work system running XP, I feel your pain... that's why I got WindowBlinds with the Windows Vista theme
*Edit* By the way... who said anything about Microsoft Publisher? I'm a music producer, not a desktop publishing guy...
My input, dev stuff:
- programmer state of the art editor: TextMate. And also the packed in developer tools (with Xcode).
- stylesheet editor: CSSedit.
- get the WebKit.app. Enjoy the Web Inspector.
- server side stuff, either get package from Marc Liyanage's, or the all in one MAMP application . This one is useful to have Apache 1.3 and 2.0 side by side.
- using Safari2 Safari3 and WebKit side by side (for site testing): I added my own input to this hint to have the three running rather than 2 (my post is misplaced in the first comment replies).
- GUI front end to SVN: svnX
- FTP client CyberDuck
- free ruler a useful small app to help check the size of anything on your screen.
other:
- VLC read most video codecs unknown to QuickTime (you can find combo codecs plugins as well)
I don't mention cross-sytem well known apps (firefox, SVN, Skype…)
Incidentally, is there any better way of doing this (keyboard navigation through finder windows), and is there a real way to actually make the view settings of Finder windows (Apple+J) stick? I've tried the "All Windows" option but it just doesn't seem to work in 10.3...
Given the choice I'd be using PathFinder, but at work I don't get the choice (hence 10.3).
option+J: the setting for "all windows" applies to every window which does not have already a setting by itself. You can delete .DS_Store hidden files to get rid of per/folder settings. Also don't miss the Finder global preference to default to the most productive "columns" view.
I've heard that you open a window to the folder location you want, adjust the settings, then close the window. Then it should stick when you open that folder again. This is the only way I've heard that works, though I still hear it doesn't work. Maybe in Panther there are still too many problems, but Tiger is supposed to remember it.
@Mini
To rename a folder or file, select it and press return. After renaming, press return again: it's set. As opposed to clicking on the name and hovering for an indeterminate length of time (that way started on the Mac with System 7 and I can't remember from System 6 what it was that I thought was better...).
If you get tired of confirm dialogs for things like restart, shut down and log out, you can hold down option(alt) and it will do the action immediately.
Software
http://quicksilver.blacktree.com/
yep. Trasmit is good. I'm using Cyberuck cause it's free. Will give a try to Transmit3. Is it good at web site mirror/sync?
In fact I'm relying to batch command line sitecopy for this purpose.
I'm so looking forward to having a fast computer to develop on again.
You should check out vmware fusion if you havent already, Mark. It runs windows apps transparently and I must say it's pretty impressive.